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Appeal of the Gnostic Religion

a simple one - they would provide man with Knowledge, and allow him "to control his own destiny When discussing the Gnostics it ...

Society, Religion, and Art of the Renaissance

In three pages this paper examines the society, religion, and art of the Renaissance with a consideration of the importance of rel...

Overview of Hinduism

In eleven pages this research paper examines Hindu principles, beliefs, text, yoga importance, and the religion's Western signific...

Judaism, Christianity, the Talmud, and The Bible

and thirst for holiness: they shall have their fill. Blessed are they who show mercy: mercy shall be theirs. Blessed are the singl...

Buddhism: Sacred Text v. Ritual

Buddha perceived many faults with the status quo approach to religion. He consequently proposed radical alternatives advocating i...

Hanbali Islam; The Religion of Saudi Arabia

the rulers. The differences between the Sunni and Shiite branches of Islam developed over a number of centuries, for many y...

Questions of Religion

revelations of Judaism and then Christianity, but draws the story onward to yet another climax" (Neusner, 2006). Neusner says that...

The Immediate and Remote Causes of the Attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center

This 5 page paper discusses the fact that Osama bin Laden and his followers are Muslims, and that Islam claims to be a peaceful re...

Religious Beliefs and the Theories of Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, and Karl Marx

study the primitive, not because there was any one point in time at which religion could have been said to have begun, but because...

Critique of God and Contemporary Science by Philip Clayton

body, so, too, can the thought of God(or what he/she expects of a person) possibly influence the world, or motivate a culture into...

Definition of Globalization and its Dangers

expense of myriad unsophisticated societies. As such, this dichotomy of progression has rendered globalization a much-contested c...

NIGERIA OIL, AND THE CURSE OF BLACK GOLD

of Nigeria, which is exporting more oil (United Arab Emirates, 2009). Granted, the systems of government are very differe...

Language and Understanding the World

language can prove to be difficult when seeking to correlation language and the development of a wider understanding of the world ...

Legacy of the Cold War

alliance of liberal democracies, or the First World, and the Soviet bloc of state socialist nations or the Second World (McLeish 7...

Analysis of Walcott's The Light of the World

(Walcotts brother Roderick is a playwright). While young Derek was growing up and dipping into these books time and again, he foun...

Global Stratification and Dependency Theories

Modernization theory proposes that "pre-industrial societies are in a traditional stage" (Norton, n.d.). Traditional means that ki...

A Review of The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H.

Hitler. Hitler, of course, committed suicide near the end of World War II. Steiner placing him in the Amazon several years after ...

World Poverty and Globalization

restructuring of the global economy which was so desperately needed in 1944, and the General Agreement on Trades and Tariffs desig...

World Politics

"new public management" as a way of better administering policy. Beate Kohler-Koch has seen the transformation of governance as af...

Second World War and Changes to the Nursing Profession

base on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, officially bringing the United States into World War II. At the time of the surprise attack, howev...

WHY THE U.S. JOINED WORLD WAR I

1917. The overt, and simple, explanation for Americas entry into the European conflict was the May, 1915 sinking of the Bri...

Wilfred Owen/"Dulce et Decorum Est"

This essay pertains to Wilfred Owen's poem, which captures the horror of World War I. Five pages in length, seven sources are cite...

The New World

that gold could be found. However, this was not ultimately why the New World was colonized, especially in light of the fact that g...

Tragic Elements of Hamlet by William Shakespeare

In five pages this paper analyzes the play's tragic elements and then applies them to the experience of the contemporary world....

Second World War Participation of Japan

In seven pages this paper examines why Japan became embroiled in the Second World War conflict and its failed effort....

A General History of World War II

of economic recession that induced feelings of fear, distrust and fed the fire of national rivalries, the climate was ripe for alt...

Book Review of A Place Among Nations by Benjamin Netanyahu

In five pages Netanyahu's 1993 text in which he provides powerful and insightful considerations of Israel and the world is discuss...

Holocaust and Its Sociopolitical Causes

There has been some evidence that Hitlers rabid anti-Semitism was catalyzed upon his rejection. One of the most prominent judges ...

Jonathan S. Petrikin's The Third World

their positions within the country, many who do are consistently hindered from achieving any form of success at bettering their pr...

Explication of the Poem The Eternal Dice

In four pages this poetry explication considers the author's future world vision and anger regarding God....